Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
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You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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